Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon was a British soldier and older brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 until 1952.
Background
He was born at Ham, London and educated at Eton College, Berkshire. Just a fortnight after the start of, he married Lady Christina Norah Dawson-Damer (7 August 1890 – 29 March 1959), daughter of the 5th Earl of Portarlington, on 17 September 1914.
Career
Bowes-Lyon was killed during
They have two daughters:
Katherine Mary Joicey-Cecil (7 June 1978)
Susanna Maud Joicey-Cecil 25 March 1981)
They have two sons:
Colin Andrew Fergus Malcolm (6 June 1973)
William James Ronald Malcolm (10 October 1975)
He was a keen cricketer and played in the annual autumn fixtures held at the cricket ground at Glamis Castle. In the First World War he served with the 8th Battalion, Black Watch. Alfred Anderson, later the last surviving Scottish soldier of the conflict (and the last surviving British soldier to have been awarded the 1914 Star), was his batman.
Bowes-Lyon was killed during the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt in the Battle of Loos.
As he led an attack on the German lines, his leg was blown off by a barrage of German artillery and he fell back into his sergeant"s arms. Bullets struck him in the chest and shoulder and he died on the field
He was buried in a quarry at Vermelles, but although the quarry was adopted as a war cemetery the details of his grave were lost and so he was recorded among the names of the missing on the Loos Memorial. Fergus"s widow later married Captain William Frederick Martin (d 6 October 1947).
As a result in August 2012 his place of commemoration was moved to the Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles, marked by a headstone inscribed with his details and the words "Buried near this spot" as the precise location of the grave is still not known.
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Quotations:
"Buried near this spot".